seasteading since the 1981?... nah look further back, research buckminster fullar in the 1960's
plus floating homes have been around awhile now.. so i keep questioning why hasnt seasteading/blue frontiers moved forward..

you mention the "memo".

1. its not contract
2. the details, idea/gameplan for a project in French polonesia is different from what was proposed to the locals and what you tell investors of this utopian hype.

by the way
that memo was voided in january 2018. as no progress had been made.
secondly. the plan was to make CHEAP residences for the locals(they were told/hoped for). but the seastead investment and project was to make a independant tech colony for outsiders.

heres part of the discussion before the memo production
http://uk.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-seasteading-institute-2016-9?r=US&IR=T
*platform for 30 people=$15m cost.. ($500k pp or $1.5m per small family)
*break ground in 2017

the seastead institute likes to buzzword things. like
french polynesia .. but they pulled out in january (SO STOP HIGHLIGHTING A MEMO..)
peter thiel... but he pulled out in 2011.. (SO STOP HIGHLIGHTING HIM)
 see how elwar "big buzzed" peters entrance of 2008 but does not buzz his exit in 2011, thus subliminally/subtly trying to make investors assume peter thiel still is part and still approves of seasteading.

sorry but peter does not.

french polynesia were told it would be a project that would give residences a place to live. yet the reality is a real estate deal where french polynesia gets ZERO economic benefit and those seasteads are made for the techno-rich population looking for a tax haven.

and lets get back to a point i have tried hinting at many times. the ecological negative of such a project.. waste managemnt.. as far back as 2008-9 there were many controversies.. elwar. go research russ george

but lets get to the crux of it
1. it does not take 4-20 years to make a float
2. it does not take millions to make a float to sstain a family
3 if you take all the buzzwords, fame-naming, and glossy pictures away. you soon see a big lack in an actual business/development plan.

to me its just empty plan that a 15yo could write up over 3 days and not something that really shows the detail needed that goes byond google searches that a real business plan would include. i can se why peter thiel left.

now how many people invested a few thousand with hopes of one day getting to live in french polynesia...
firstly if its more than 300.. many will get some bad news in a few years.
secondly if you think it will be cheaper than a land based house.. again bad news (yet non blu frontiers projects can make floating homes that are still in the housing retail market range!!)
thirdly if you think it will be free of government.. again bad news
fourthly if your one of the 75 local residents the blue frontiers promises and guarantees a home too.. i got bad news for you
fifly if you think after 10 years of seasteading in which elwar says he has had an partial interest in since 2008 things should be moving. but...


nope. all the funds thus far have been wasted on vacations and parties(elwar admits njoying his time in tahiti.. long with a team of others partying with investors funds)

also
while its been years that the seastead institute has been promoting all their crap and not moving forward. other projects unrelatd to the seasteading institute have actually got people living on the water
here is just one from 2015
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/06/the-floating-houses-of-ijburg-amsterdam.html

again for emphasis.. has NOTHING to do with the seasteading institute. and yet they made these at less cost, time and less buzzwords of promise. they just "got it dun"

the sea steading/bluefrontiers/varyon want to still be at a "insteading" stage way into mid 2020's yet many places around the world started and have already got past the 'insteading" stag years ago.

which if elwar done his research would se how blue frontiers/seasteading institute are very very empty of actual action

lastly.
for every CGI image elwar can publish of a buiding that has NO architectural detail of actual functional design (meaning only looks good but wont work out)
i can show you many images of floating residences that actually exist and are part of thier own water based community
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/floating-neighborhood-view-several-float-homes-calm-water-portland-oregon-columbia-river-washington-state-54410363.jpg

http://jfgrowotherseje.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/floating-homes-for-sale-portland-floating-home-floating-homes-floating-homes-for-sale-by-owner-floating.jpg

Definitely still going. The main sale is being planned for October. Several announcements coming soon.

In addition to delays in the token sales, there were also many extensions. The market doesn't seem to be positive for ICOs! The bad news is that many projects fail to take risks! Maybe they could be well accepted and go against the trend! But they're afraid to try.

So the latest update is that Blue Frontiers will not be moving ahead with the main sale. All pre-sale purchases are being refunded and varyon is still being issued with no obligations to Blue Frontiers.

The timing was just not right, the bear market plus French Polynesia taking their own sweet time to get a site approved just makes it so that moving forward with the main sale right now just doesn't make sense. Blue Frontiers is still moving forward, they're working on obtaining funding through more traditional means and narrowing their focus down to utilize the work they have already put in, mainly focusing on the sea zone and regulation side of things. The $100k contest to find a suitable seasteading location is still moving forward with about a dozen contestants moving into the second round with locations all over the world.

Hopefully the timing of having several locations along with the market swinging back upward will allow for a future sale but that may not be necessary.

Ya, I really wanted them to go ahead with the main sale. They decided that since it would be a while before they had anything concrete in French Polynesia it was disingenuous to move ahead with the sale. You'd basically be buying tokens that may never be used. But they're still working on getting things going. I visited the atoll they're considering and it's perfect for a seastead.

They're still distributing varyon. It's just not currently tied to anything since they don't have a location to build anything.

https://ocean.builders/the-worlds-first-seastead-is-in-the-water/

The first seastead is in the water.

Further prospect is https://ocean.builders

it seems like there is no more bounty program for this project,
or you try, you can find out the information on the Varyon telegram or btcltcdigger